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Brian -- What you have is a Fordson Model F with a Trackson Model D conversion kit installed. (The rarer of the two most popular conversions that Trackson manufactured.) Finding out the year of manufacture may not be possible, if the engine is not the original... Most of the Model F"s were pretty much the same, anyway, with the exception of the manifold and a few minor cosmetic differences. Hercules did contract to furnish engines for some of the very earliest Fordson Model F"s in early 1918, but I"m pretty sure they looked just like the version that the Fordson assembly line eventually produced. The big difference on the early engines is that the oil filler is toward the rear of the engine, just ahead of the magneto post. Hopefully Butch Howe in upstate NY will see your posting and respond as well; he has owned several of the early Fordson Model F"s, including some crawler conversions, and has forgotten more about them than a lot of folks will ever know. If the tractor ran when parked, has been stored dry indoors, and the engine is still free, it shouldn"t take too much to get it going again, and any tractor is worth more running than not, of course. Even with a mongrel engine, I would think you should be able to get $2500 to $3500 for it (although, my grandfather"s voice is ringing in my ear: "It"s not what it"s worth, it"s what it"ll fetch!"), if it"s not too worn out. Maybe more, maybe less. Where is the tractor located? I"d be glad to answer any other questions you may have, to the limits of my knowledge. E-mail is open. -- Maine Fordson
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